Understanding Transnational Diaspora Politics: A Conceptual Discussion THEMATIC REPORT ONE

Shifting frameworks for understanding otherness

AI-Empowered and Sociolinguistic Perspectives on the German Translation of Teahouse: A Digital Analysis of Cross-Cultural Communication and Language Varieties

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Leveraging Border Studies: Some Ideas in Favour of Mobilizing Knowledge in Ways that Matter

This essay is part of the Special Section, Border Studies: Past, Present, and Future, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Association for Borderlands Studies.  

Beyond Capital: Morality, Normative Politics, and the Reinvention of Matchmaking in Urban China. Comment on Wang (2026). When Parents Become Matchmakers: Family Roles, Social Inequality, and Intergenerational Relationships. Family Sciences, 2(3), 19

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Concluding reflections on the study of language conflict in historical sociolinguistics

Abstract Apart from situating the contributions to this special issue within the broader literature on language conflict, this commentary also outlines a number of tentative directions that may help bring the phenomenon of language conflict into sharper analytical focus and further develop historical sociolinguistics a...

Beware the Funhouse Mirror

Instead of opening debate and reflecting public opinion, social media platforms have amplified a small subset of extreme voices who dominate discussion, poison public discourse, and mislead the public.